Brainwave Entrainment
Brainwave and Biofield Entrainment and Ultimate Spiritual Liberation
Can brainwave and biofield entrainment help in ultimate spiritual liberation? Perhaps, according to some views that still rely on subject-object dualism, it can’t or at least may not matter that much, since they are more concerned with the empty side of the table, the transcendent Subject, which, in their schools, is divorced from the manifested…
Read MoreIntegration and Mindfulness: A Dynamic Duo
Something I find quite extraordinary about the Profound Meditation Program is the integrative power of the practice. In other words, you really get through your trauma and shadow issues. They come out during the process, and often they’re expressed not just in cognitive ideas but in bodily-felt sensations. This doesn’t necessarily happen with traditional meditation. Because the Profound Meditation Program is…
Read MoreArt from the Edge of Everything: Painting as Spiritual Practice
Louis Parsons’ art SoulScapes was recently featured in the Integral Art Gallery – December 2012. ___________________________________________________________________________ Louis Parsons, Artist, iAwake Guest Blogger I’ve been painting professionally, in a very particular way that has become known as “SoulScaping,” for over ten years. During this time, painting has been my major spiritual practice. You see, to be honest, I’m not that good at meditating. I have a very…
Read MoreTransformational Practice: How to Reach Higher Stages of Development
If we understand stage development, we understand the challenges that face us as a world; with so many people at so many different levels all thinking they are absolutely correct and everyone else is wrong, it’s really hard for people to even speak to each other. If you think I’m wrong, go home for Thanksgiving or…
Read MoreGetting Started with the Profound Meditation Program
Have you recently bought the Profound Meditation Program 3.0 and want some guidance on how to get started and use it effectively? Here is a slideshow that goes over the basics: Getting Started with Profound Meditation from Pam Dupuy, LMFT (NOTE: To see it full screen click the 4 arrows pointing outward on the lower right.) To get started: Begin…
Read MorePracticing Meditation to Reach Higher States, Higher Stages
One of the great benefits of brainwave entrainment meditation is that it is one of the only things that has been shown to actually facilitate and speed up the process of moving stably into higher developmental levels. I love it that we can now watch exactly what happens in the brain when someone is practicing…
Read MorePotential Use of Brainwave and Biofield Entrainment Tech in Self-Managing Bulimia
Let me start with an introduction. I live in St. Petersburg, Russia where I maintain private practice in Integral psychotherapy after graduating as clinical psychologist from St. Petersburg State University in 2010. I have been using various products by iAwake Technologies for more than two years already to assist my integral life practice (that involves,…
Read MoreCreativity and Conscious Evolution
I picked up a book the other day by Rollo May called The Courage to Create, published in 1975. Rollo May was an existential psychologist, and I think he was quite influential in some of Ken Wilber’s early stuff. His half-brother, Gerald May, wrote a classic in the recovery field, calledAddiction & Grace. Anyway, The Courage to…
Read MoreHope at the End of the Tunnel
I was recently in the Bay Area to teach a class on Addiction Studies. When my class and I did our first meditation together, we sank into a very deep meditative state, one which we could all really feel. When you meditate in a group, there is a definite field of energy, a palpable coming…
Read MoreYour Passion Your Practice
I have been passionately playing electric blues guitar for about two years now. Before that, I spent about forty years playing acoustic rhythm guitar and a little bit of lead. Then two years ago this August, I fell in love with a guitar at a friend’s house. He was selling a vintage guitar―which I bought…
Read MoreSo, what is enlightenment anyway?
I want to talk about non-duality and enlightenment and open up that whole can of worms, because there’s just a lot of talk about it these days. We put ourselves through all kinds of crazy things in order to achieve it: we join ashrams, follow spiritual teachers, spend lots of money, and really do all…
Read MoreCombining PMP Meditations with Unassisted Meditations
Q: In the ILP literature, Ken Wilbur does endorse the use of “auditory meditation aids” such as this, but also emphasizes the need for an onging meditation practice without such aids. With only so much time in a day to meditate, since I am a householder and not a monk, what is your perspective? My…
Read MoreA Common Misconception About Carrier Frequency in Binaural Brainwave Entrainment
Because the lowering of carrier frequency—or pitch—is capable of providing more of a sense of “fullness” and “drive” to a binaural brainwave entrainment stimulus, it is often mistakenly assumed that such lowering of carrier frequency actually increases the ability of the entrainment stimulus to attract neural activity into its train of influence. This is not so. Scientific research has…
Read MoreConsumerism and the Brain
A short presentation on the proposed neural correlates of consumerism. Because this presentation was originally offered as a live talk, much of the pertinent information was spoken in person and therefore not included in print form in the PowerPoint. As such, the visual presentation, when viewed by itself, may seem to be lacking in information.
Read MoreThe Deeper Meaning of Entrainment
The Tao never does anything, yet through it all things are done. If powerful men and women could center themselves in it, the whole world would be transformed by itself, in its natural rhythms. ~ Lao Tzu If you “Google” the term “entrainment,” you’ll find dozens of responses, many of them pertaining to brainwave entrainment, which has…
Read MoreBrainwave States in Traditional Buddhist and Hindu Teachings Part 4
Causal Body, Causal State Termed the karana sarira in Vedanta, the causal body is deemed to be limitless and expansive in nature, a body of bliss and spirit. It is the seat of deep wisdom and insight. Certain Buddhist manuscripts have asserted this state to be approachable through the state of deep, dreamless sleep. As such, its…
Read MoreBrainwave States in Traditional Buddhist and Hindu Teachings Part 3
Subtle Body, Subtle State In Mahayana Buddhism, the sambhogakaya refers to the subtle body, or the astral body, which is made of brilliant, clear light. Vedanta calls this the sukshma sarira, correlating it with the “dreaming self” that supports the emotional-sexual, mental and higher mental capacities. Its corresponding state is one in which the mental capacity for discernment…
Read MoreBrainwave States in Traditional Buddhist and Hindu Teachings Part 2
Gross Body, Gross State The densest body in Vedanta is the gross body—the sthula sarira, which supports the waking state of consciousness as well as the annamayakosha, the outermost of five sheaths which cover the deepest Self like a 5-layered lampshade. It is the physical body made up of the five elements: earth, water, fire, air and…
Read MoreBrainwave States in Traditional Buddhist and Hindu Teachings Part 1
WAKING, DREAMING, SLEEPING by Eric Thompson The four brainwave patterns most often studied in science (Beta, Alpha, Theta, Delta) represent states of waking, dreaming and sleeping through which we pass every 24 hours. While all brainwave patterns are usually present throughout the day, Beta activity is dominant during the waking state. Alpha and Theta appear…
Read MoreBrainwave Meditation Programs
My History With Brainwave Meditation Programs by Eric Thompson I first became aware of brainwave meditation programs and brain waves when researching alternative methods for treating the bipolar disorder I had been unsuccessfully living with my entire adult life. I eventually learned a method of releasing difficult emotions on the spot, which I then practiced…
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